Dinaw Mengestu Quotes
Writers, especially those of us with roots in other countries, are rarely left to ourselves. We are asked to declare our allegiances, or they are determined for us.
Quotes to Explore
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Glasgow has truly become my home away from home.
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You can't leave the thing that you are, the house that has become your biography.
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I wanted to identify that the black experience is American experience.
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It makes no difference whether a work is naturalistic or abstract; every visual expression follows the same fundamental laws.
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An actor is working steady if he's active four to six months a year.
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Saving Milly was a break from this effort because I felt that it was time to be part of something that could shed light on a disease everyone feels they know, when most know so little.
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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
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I am not thinking about life after football, but I know it will be another life, another world.
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I love New York. Love it.
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From the first instant I met her, I wanted to be Nora Ephron. I just really wanted to please her.
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The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
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There are characters that become more popular as we fall in love with them.
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I've been on so many blind dates, I should get a free dog.
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I am a collection of thoughts and memories and likes and dislikes. I am the things that have happened to me and the sum of everything I've ever done. I am the clothes I wear on my back. I am every place and every person and every object I have ever come across. I am a bag of bones stuck to a very large rock spinning a thousand miles an hour.
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As teenagers, we all see ourselves as outsiders... and it's very easy to look at other people who are more popular, who have more pocket money, and it makes you feel even more like an outsider, and it does shape who you become as a person.
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It will fluctuate.
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When I started Oracle, what I wanted to do was to create an environment where I would enjoy working. That was my primary goal. Sure, I wanted to make a living. I certainly never expected to become rich, certainly not this rich. I mean, rich does not even describe this. This is surreal.
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I am not meet for petty men, slack their spirit: They know not, they, what day the Chief was made, what hour of the fine day was born the owner, what a beast they keep with its silver head. When we went with Arthur, a sorry strife, Save for seven none came up from Fort Hoar-side.
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I figured out something spiritual. Billboard this: 'Life is supposed to be fun!'
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I've never known a writer who didn't feel ill at ease in the world. We all feel unhoused in some sense. That's part of why we write. We feel we don't fit in, that this world is not our world, that though we may move in it, we're not of it. You don't need to write a novel if you feel at home in the world.
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I want to be a positive role-model for my daughter. The last thing I want to put out there is that it's acceptable to be too thin or have an eating disorder because you're in Hollywood.
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I don't know what happens at radio as far as what is that X factor that makes a song click and have people get connected to it when it's in another language.
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I've always been just kind of consumed by my own thoughts.
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Writers, especially those of us with roots in other countries, are rarely left to ourselves. We are asked to declare our allegiances, or they are determined for us.
